Personal data vaults: Improving healthcare
Last week I joined the Data Space Day organised by @IMEC, @Agoria, @KULeuven and @athumi.
Listening to the different talks I envisioned a future where every individual has its own data vault with all its training certificates. We’ll offcourse also have a data vault with our health data - but that is a different topic.
Imagine a vault that has your primary, secondary, university and post-graduate training certificates at individual course level stored in a structured way. In addition, if you are a health care practitioner (HCP), imagine that all your Continued Medical Education certificates are stored there as well. From this vault, you, as an HCP, can give permission to others to tab into your vault for all or parts of the information (e.g. a third party is allowed to see the institution and title but not the date you got the certificate or your score on the exam).
Now, imagine the following use cases:
I am a patient and want to increase my trust in the doctor that will treat me: I want to verify his/her credentials (read: not just ‘googling’ his/her name and read what I find.
I am a hospital or care centre recruiting a new staff member: I want to verify the credentials of the applications.
I am a recruiter for healthcare practitioners and want to check the credentials of a potential candidate.
I am a healthcare practitioner whom wants to credibly present himself online so that potential patient can easily find me and trust the quality of my services.
I am a public authority (in Belgium: RISIV/INAMI) and i want to verify if all accredited healthcare workers completed their obligatory number of hours of continued medical education.
Many use cases of personal data vaults at the crossroad of healthcare and medical education show me that they indirectly contribute to improving the quality of care as they allow to bring much more transparency in the professional qualifications and trainings of healthcare professionals. This benefits patients, public authorities, healthcare organisations and
Happy to discuss further with interested parties that want to investigate this further.